 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 sidor
...question but you are as great an orator as sir Hudibras, of whom the poet sweetly sings, " — — He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." If you will send us down the half dozen well-turned periods that produced such dismal effects in your... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1803 - 522 sidor
...pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm true. In mood and figure he would do. So For rhetorie, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope: And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to fliew why, 85 And tell what rules... | |
 | 1804 - 764 sidor
...characters reminded us forcibly of Hudibras, who, we arc told, was fo poetically metaphorical, that he .. " could not ope " His mouth, but out there flew a trope." The ailing was in every rcfpeft good. Mrs. Jordan and the junior Bannifter difplayed their fuperior... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 sidor
...Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, 75 Arid roobi Committee-men and Trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination....by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. 8° ForRnETOHie, he cou'd not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : And when lir- happun'd to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 442 sidor
...Almighty. WARBURTOM. VER. 205. Bentley his mouth, &c.~\ An imitation of Butler, Iludibras, i. I. 81. " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." "WA But Welfted moft the Poet's healing balm Strives to extract from his foft, giving palm ; Unlucky... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 494 sidor
...We do not question but you are as great an orator as sir Hudibras, of whom the poet sweetly sings, -He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." If you will send us down the half dozen well-turned periods that produced such dismal effects in your... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 sidor
...a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination:...there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off ]' th" middle of his speech, or cough, H1 had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rulos he... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 sidor
...Pride, and Reason ; nor is her brow so smooth, nor her mien so soft and captivating, as in her earlier All this by syllogism, true '. In mood and figure, he would do." .- '„ • And again: — '.f . " Besides, he was a sbrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 sidor
...may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, • 15 And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination...by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. 80 For rhctoric^lie could not ope His month, but out their flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - 1817 - 626 sidor
...Lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees He'll run in debt by disputation, And pay, with ratiocination....All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he will do. For rhetorick, he cannot ope His mouth, bat out there flies a trope. He can reduce all things... | |
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He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. 
